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Hello and welcome. I'm Patrick Curtis, your host and Chief Monkey. And this is the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Join me as I talk to some of the community's most successful and inspirational members to gain valuable insight into different career paths and life in general. Let's get to it.

In this episode, Avi shares his unusual path from investment banking to running a magazine

startup and then backed into investment banking two years later. After that

re-entry into finance, Avi was able to lateral into an IR role at a private equity fund and eventually

became COO of Riverside's European Fund seven years later. Finally, he made the bold, and I'd argue

crazy move to pursue a PhD while working and eventually found himself at Landmark,

a private equity fund focused on the secondary market. Super interesting path. Enjoy.

All right, Avi, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Thank you. Thanks for having me.

So it'd be great if you could give the listeners just a short summary of your bio to get started.

Sure, I'd be happy to.

I'm a managing director in the quantitative research group at a firm called Landmark Partners.

Landmark is one of the largest private equity, private real estate, and infrastructure

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